Augmented Reality (AR) is at the sweet-spot of mobile phone applications right now. Using AR applications on smart phones, users can hold up their phone and look through the camera to see all sorts of information about their immediate surroundings.

At the Mobile World Congress industry trade fare this week, Layar said it had secured additional funding and had also struck a partnership with an as-yet unnamed ‘top three’ mobile phone maker. So that means Nokia, Samsung or LG, and suggests the software may soon come pre-installed on more devices. Right now it is pre-installed on the Samsung Galaxy in the Netherlands.